Hi, I'm about to separate our MSTP setup into different regions.
The reason is simple: Most VLANs are only needed at the core, and recomputations of those should not affect the entire "cloud" (and vice-versa). For now, I have configured ONE additional region to the existing one. So in fact we now have two regions, the one shown in orange, as well as the rest of the drawing: http://i57.tinypic.com/2557yix.png Now I find that drawing a setup with multiple regions in topology manager does not seem to really work out, or there is some config issue. Here's some output from the switches G3 -> show spantree stats sid 1 Spanning tree status - enabled Spanning tree instance - 1 Designated Root MacAddr - 00:1F:45:aa:xx:58 Designated Root Port - 0 Designated Root Priority - 32768 Designated Root Cost - 0 Root Max Age - 20 Root Hello Time - 2 Root Forward Delay - 15 Bridge ID MAC Address - 00:1F:45:aa:xx:58 Bridge ID Priority - 32768 Bridge Max Age - 20 Bridge Hello Time - 2 Bridge Forward Delay - 15 Topology Change Count - 65 Time Since Top Change - 6 days 5:15:37 Max Hops - 20 B5 -> show spantree stats sid 1 Spanning tree status - enabled Spanning tree instance - 1 Designated Root MacAddr - 00:1F:45:aa:xx:58 Designated Root Port - ge.1.48 Designated Root Priority - 32768 Designated Root Cost - 20000 Root Max Age - 20 Root Hello Time - 2 Root Forward Delay - 15 Bridge ID MAC Address - 20:B3:99:bb:yy:DC Bridge ID Priority - 32768 Bridge Max Age - 20 Bridge Hello Time - 2 Bridge Forward Delay - 15 Topology Change Count - 2 Time Since Top Change - 19 days 3:53:19 Max Hops - 20 The B5 seems to have accepted the G3 correctly as its STP root. But why are the links in (and out of the region) in topology manager dotted? The MST Configuration Identifier is identical on the switches supposed to form the region. "show spantree mstmap" and "show spantree vlanlist" show the same thing on all those switches. What is a "designated root" as shown in the diagram? Does it mean the CIST Root? BTW Neither do I find much on the CLI which would point me toward the correctness of my setup. On Ciscos you see boundary ports and MACs of CIST regional roots, is there some similar output here somewhere? And what does it mean when the CLI says during "show spantree mstmap": Vlan 1 is mapped to Sid CST Yeah there is no setting mapping it to an instance right. But even when I have only one region it still talks about CST, although in my understanding the CST only really exists when there are multiple regions. So what does this mean? This is Netsight 4.4 by the way, and the most recent FWs on the respective switches. Best regards, Marki --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
